Timeline: 1995-1996

The Feminist Majority convenes Women United for Equality to alert the nation to the threat to women's opportunities posed by anti-affirmative action measures. Women United for Equality delegation marches on White House to demand that President Clinton stand firm on affirmative action.

Feminist Majority president Eleanor Smeal joins other women's rights leaders in speaking with President Clinton on affirmative action for women and people of color.

In the spring of 1995, Rock for Choice releases a compilation CD of women artists of the 90's covering female hits of the '70's entitled "Spirit of '73: Rock for Choice" on Epic Records.

Feminist Majority summer 1995 interns organize Affirmative Action Lobby Day for hundreds of interns in Washington, D.C

NEW INITIATIVE - The Feminist Majority, along with the Feminist Majority Foundation, is one of the largest single contributors to the fight to defeat California's Prop 209, the anti-affirmative action measure. Prop 209 passes by a narrow margin, 54% to 46%, after having enjoyed initial support as high as 72% in the polls. We reduced the margin of defeat by mobilizing a 9 point gender gap, with 52% of women against the measure while 61% of the were men for it. Young women were the strongest opponents of 209, with 57% voting against.

Eleanor Smeal marches with students against Prop 209
Feminist Majority's Freedom Summer '96 and Fall '96 student organizing drives bring hundreds of students from across the nation to California to help defeat Proposition 209.

Rock for Choice releases another compilation CD in the fall of 1996, "O' Come All Ye Faithful: Rock for Choice", of alternative rock musicians performing Yuletide favorites on Columbia Records.

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